New operators could be found to run five leisure centres in Shropshire unless current bosses agree a funding cut, it was revealed today.

Wanted – someone to take over the running of one of Shropshire’s oldest markets.

The sale of a hotel overlooking Church Stretton to a national holiday operator could provide a real boost for tourism and outdoor activities in the area, it has been claimed.

The controversial switching off of thousands of streetlights across Shropshire between midnight and dawn could be completed sooner than planned, it was revealed today.

The Longmynd Hotel, which overlooks Church Stretton, has been sold to a holiday operator in a multi-million pound deal, it was revealed today.

An investigation was under way today after a van crashed into a tree on the A49 near Church Stretton, leaving one man dead and two others injured – one seriously.

A man died and two other men were injured after a van careered off the A49 in Shropshire and crashed today.

Councillors in Church Stretton have challenged a decision to scrap a £70,000 project to widen pavements on one of the town’s busiest roads.

A six-month pilot project to switch off street lights overnight in Church Stretton has been hailed as a success – after councillors revealed they had received no complaints from residents.

Councillors in Church Stretton have pledged to fight a decision to axe a £70,000 road improvement scheme which was planned in the town centre.

Plans to reinstate cardboard recycling collections in Church Stretton are being investigated, it has been revealed.

Plans to reinstate cardboard recycling collections in Church Stretton are being investigated, it has been revealed.

A plastics manufacturing firm has been given permission to build a factory in Craven Arms.

Golfer Jonathan Gidney has won a dream opportunity to meet US Open champion Rory McIlroy after topping an online competition for performing an eye-catching trickshot.

A crunch meeting to discuss funding the running of leisure centres in parts of Shropshire will take place tomorrow, amid claims some could see their budgets cut by up to 40 per cent.

A 72-year-old man has been given an indefinite hospital order under the Mental Health Act after a jury ruled that he had attempted to murder his ex-wife by attacking her with a knife.

An elderly man from Ludlow admitted to police he ‘lost it’ and pulled out a knife and stabbed his ex-wife, a court heard.

Shropshire’s Jonathan Gidney is on the brink of winning a national competition to emulate a Rory McIlroy trick shot – and sealing a meeting with the golfing mega star.

Controversial plans to remove eight on-street parking spaces on one of Church Stretton’s busiest roads have been thrown out.

An elderly man repeatedly stabbed his ex-wife, plunging a knife into her before cutting his own throat as they stood in the street, a court heard today.

Two homes in south Shropshire have been ransacked by burglars just days after Christmas.

Two men have completed a remarkable 12,000-mile journey hitch-hiking from Australia to Shropshire in three months – making it home just in time for Christmas.

It was a seven-year-old girl’s heartfelt plea to Santa for a new dolls’ house as her collection of Sindys had ‘nowhere to live’.

A network of sewer pipes running beneath Shrewsbury has been named among the worst 20 in the Midlands for blockages, it was revealed today.

More than 16,000 further homes and businesses in Shropshire will have access to faster broadband by next summer, BT said this afternoon.

More than 50 temporary employees at the Royal Mail sorting office in Shrewsbury in the run-up to Christmas were not paid for a week’s work, it was claimed this afternoon.

Shropshire’s Steve Farmer was today celebrating causing one of the major upsets of the Ladbrokes World Darts Championship.

Two men desperately trying to get home to Shropshire for Christmas after a mammoth charity trip are nearing the end of their epic journey.

Shropshire Council’s scheme to reduce the number of parking spaces in High Street, Church Stretton, will result in shops closing and the loss of the Thursday general market whose customers will have nowhere to stop to collect their shopping.

Council chiefs today said they were standing by their decision to scrap on-street parking in High Street in Church Stretton.